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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:31:22
Message-Id: 20120308162902.4bc8e352@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds by Zac Medico
1 On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:21:53 -0800
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > Maybe that sort of distinction truly makes a difference to some
4 > people, but to me it just seems like hair-splitting [1].
5
6 So just to get this straight, you think that the following two
7 restrictions are effectively equivalent?
8
9 * The variable DEPEND's value must be set according to the following
10 rules:
11
12 * The EAPI variable assignment must not use full bash syntax. Instead,
13 it must be assigned according to the following rules:
14
15 And you believe that having exactly one place inside ebuild text where
16 there are different whitespace, quoting and indenting rules for
17 something that otherwise looks exactly like any other metadata variable
18 isn't going to cause problems?
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>